Combined pencil-clip and calendar.



No. 694,098. Patented Feb. 25, 1902. .T. GRIFFIN,

COMBINED. PENCIL CLIP AND liALENDAR.

(Application filed Oct. 7, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS GRIFFIN, OF BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIREf COMBINED PENCIL-CLIP AND CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,098, dated February 25, 1902. Application filed October 7, 1901. Serial No. 77,890. iNo model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS GRIFFIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berlin, in the county of Coos and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Combined Pencil-Clip and Calendar, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined pencil-clip and calendar; and the purpose of the same is to provide asimple and efiective clip for holding a rubber eraser, which is freely removable from and applicable to a pencil end, similarly to the ordinary pencil-clip, so that it can be used with different pencils and placed on the market as a separate article of manufacture, and embodying a tubular body or sleeve having longitudinal and intersecting circumferential division-lines to produce day-numeral spaces, a day-initial collar contiguous to the upper end of the said sleeve having the initials thereon in longitudinal alinement with the columns of day-numerals on the body or sleeve, a month-name collar against the upper end of the day-initial collar with the month-name abbreviations readable in planes at right angles to the initials on the. day-collar, both collars being rotatable and havingnotches at theirinnercontiguous edges adapted to coincide, and a locking-spring for the two collars.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a lead-pencil, showing a clip thereon embodying the features of the invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal vertical section of the improved clip shown applied to a portion of a pencil in elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the rotatable month-name collar.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral 1 designates a body or sleeve having a longitudinal slit 2 for convenience and facility in the removable application thereof to the end of a lead-pencil or the like. The exterior surface of this sleeve is formed or provided with thirty-one day-numeral spaces 3, in which a corresponding number of day-numerals are indicated, and secured removably in the outer end of the said sleeve and projecting from the latter is an auxiliary supporting-sleeve 4, having a longitudinal slot 5 for a purpose which will be presently explained. The auxiliary sleeve 4 is of such diameter with relation to the sleeve 1 that the parts carried by the sleeve 4 will be flush with the outer surface of the said sleeve 1,

r the sleeve 4 having a fully-open outer end to receive a rubber eraser 6. Within the sleeve 4 is a semicircular fiat spring 7, having one end secured to said sleeve and the opposite free end bent-at an angle to form a lockingtongue 8, which is freely movable in and projects through the slot 5, the said spring being concentric with the auxiliary sleeve, and the opposite flat faces of the tongue 8 are parallel with the longitudinal direction of the said sleeve, so that the side edges of the tongue will be arranged for locking engagement with the parts coacting with the body or sleeve 1 and which will now be set forth.

Rotatably mounted on the sleeve et close to the outer end of the sleeve 1 is a day-initial collar 9, having the initials of the days of the week thereon adapted to be arranged in alinement with the numeral-spaces on the body or sleeve 1, the said collar having notches 10 in the outer edge thereof, corresponding in number to the initials and centrally located in relation to the spaces occupied by the latter on the collar. Contiguous to the collar 9 and also rotatably mounted on the auxiliary sleeve 4 is a monthname collar 11, circumferentially divided into spaces having month name abbreviations therein disposed longitudinally, the inner end of the latter collar also having notches 12 equal in number to the month-name spaces and extending centrally into the latter. The

notches 10 and 12 are engaged by the tongue 8 of the spring 7, the said tongue projecting outwardly between the conterminous ends of the collars 9 and 11 for simultaneous engagement with the coinciding notches of both 001- lars, the width of the tongue aifording positive means for holding the collars in theirdesired adjusted positions. The exposed end of the tongue 8 of the spring is broad enough to be readily engaged by the thumb-nail of the user and to change the position of the collars, so'that a different day-initial or a differ ent month-name abbreviation may be brought into operative alinement with the, spaces on the body or sleeve 1 containing the difierent day-numerals. The tongue 8 is disengaged from either one or both of the collars and the latter turned on the auxiliary sleeve,thesprin g being released after the collars are adjusted to automatically lock the latter. The tongue 8, which is arranged in alinement with the numeral 1 of the sleeve or body 1, is adapted to serve as an indicator, and the collar 11 may be rotated to bring the current month adjacent to the tongue 8. This will bring the collar in a position for indicating the current month. The spring by being curved concentric with the sleeve 4 and arranged in contact with the same, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, is supported by the said sleeve and is less liable to become strained or otherwise injured than if it were not supported in this manner.

The improved device will be found convenient and useful and to provide a ready means for ascertaining the day of any month. Its capability of transfer from one pencil to another is also of material importance, as it can be similarly used on different pencils or like devices. The material used in the manufacture of the device will be that best adapted for the purpose, and though it is preferred that the day-numerals, initials, and abbrevialions be directly applied to the sleeve 1 and the collars it will be understood that in some instances sheets of paper or other material carrying said characters may be adhesively applied to the several parts.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. Apencil-clip and calendar combined comprising a sleeve carrying day-numerals and having an auxiliary sleeve projecting therefrom of less diameter, a day-initial collar rotatably mounted on the said auxiliary sleeve and having notches in the outer end thereof,

a month-name collar also rotatably mounted on the auxiliary sleeve and having notches in the inner end contiguous to and adapted to coincide with the notches of the day-initial collar, and a single spring having a tongue movably projecting through the auxiliary sleeve to engage the coinciding notches of the collars to lock the latter in their adjusted positions.

2. A combined pencil-clip and calendar having a longitudinally-split sleeve with an auxiliary sleeve of less diameter projecting therefrom and also formed with a longitudinal slot, a pair of collars independently rotatable on the auxiliary sleeve and having notches in the adjacent ends adapted to coincide, and a semicircular spring mounted in the auxiliary sleeve and having an outwardly-projecting tongue at its free end extending through the slot in said latter sleeve to engage the notches in the collars, the said longitudinally-split sleeve, and the collars respectively having day-numerals, week-day initials and monthname abbreviations thereon.

3. A combined pencil-clip and calendar comprising a day-numeral-carrying sleeve,a weekday-initial collar and a month-name collar rotatably mounted in operative relation to the said sleeve and said week-day-initial collar and month-name collar having coincidable notches in the contiguous ends thereof, and a single spring of flat form having an outwardly projecting tongue to engage said notches and immovably lock said collars.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS GRIFFIN.

Witnesses:

Gno. F. RICH, AGNES M. WOODWARD. 

